After 7 years we have had opportunity to upgrade the original journal in English. Here’s a peek inside at day 1’s devotion.

God has apportioned us each a number of days. They were written in His book long before we even saw our first day. Psalm 139:16
Today was the expiry date of Retha’s earth-suit, but because of Jesus – His life, His death and His resurrection – she LIVES and so we mourn our own loss and celebrate her transition into the next world.

She was a friend and prayer partner in the pattern of Epaphras, Paul’s fellow-worker and friend. She was “always labouring in prayer for others…” that they “would stand firm and complete in the will of God”. Col 4:12

Pray for us who remain behind, that we would process our loss and pain IN and WITH God.

Until next time,
Viv

I was hospitalized with anorexia and I left hospital with bulimia. I have spent my whole life battling with a food disorder of some kind, until LITENUF. Survival came by clinging to the Lord but there was always this battle. True freedom has come through LITENUF and the truth of God’s Word. I am beginning to walk in the potential God has planted within me without fear!!! What a gift this is. – Carol

‘n Bakkie “Double Delight” was die begin van my 20 jaar stryd met die eet-steurnis … anorexia en bulimia. Ek het op ‘n stadium 37kg geweeg en nog steeds gedink ek is dik. Op 12 November 2010 het ek dit vir die eerste keer aan iemand, (Retha) erken.  Ek het dit finaal oorwin. Ek is vry! –  Liezel

Wow! Is all that comes to mind. This has been a life changing experience for me and even though I fell off the wagon a bit towards the end, I did not give up. Today is Day 40 and I have walked a path of self-discovery with my Saviour Jesus Christ. My revelations have been amazing and I was so aware of God’s nearness. The truth I suppose is never easy for any of us especially when its staring you in the face, but I truly feel that I am on the path to be the best mother, wife, daughter, sister, citizen, friend…. that I could possibly be. Perhaps it would be appropriate to say that the journey is complete but instead I want to say that my journey has just started! Thank you for this beautiful programme and I hope that you continue touching lives the way you have mine. –  Tracy

When I began the journey I felt God was initiating a new day for me – He has indeed breathed such new life into me, He has awakened a new season in my life; I am most certainly not the same person now that I was when I started the journey.  He has taken me off the path of self-destruction, stunted growth and fruitlessness, and has instead started me on the path of inner freedom like I have never known before. All praise and all glory to Him and Him alone! – Heidi

Wens ek kan vir jou vertel hoe baie hierdie reis vir my beteken het! Dankie! I praise the Lord  that I can change and find the freedom and wholeness that God has for me, through your journey and with your help. The fasting/your guidance etc. has enabled me to move with the leading of the Holy Spirit en om weer JOY in my lewe te ervaar! – Anonymous

Ek gaan ‘n ‘continuous’ 40 dae in my lewe hê. Hoe dan anders? Ek het so geestelik gegroei dat ek skoon emosioneel is. Ek besef nou hoe groot God se goedheid en eindelose genade is … om stil te raak en te luister! Ek het 8,6kg verloor.   Annemarie

Ek sal nooit weer op ‘n dieet gaan nie, dis te negatief vir my. Ek hou van hoe ek nou eet. Dit is FANTASTIES!!!  Die Here het nie vir my verniet woord gegee  – I WILL SET YOU FREE!!!!  Op geestelike vlak, kan dit nie beter gaan nie. God het regtig my hand gevat en saam stap ons nou hierdie pad elke dag. Die Here het soveel geslote deure oor Hom en myself oopgemaak.   Malinda

God has healed me from 10 years of intense colon pain and food intolerances. I encourage everyone to deal with past hurts and enemy footholds (Astrology – Isaiah 47:13-15) All Glory to God!!!  Des

Hierdie vas was vir my ‘n geloofsverdieping. Toe ek begin het was een van my doelwitte om meer balans in my wese te hê. Hierdie proses het my daarmee gehelp. Ek gaan soetgoed baie meer matig inneem. Ek het my teikengewig bereik – het 7 kg verloor. Phillip (Chirurg)

Weke na sy reis skryf Phillip weer:  Ons reis saam met julle dra steeds vrugte. Dit het my in ‘n roetine gesit ten opsigte van my bybelstudie, gebed, ens….dankie daarvoor.

Hierdie was my 2de 40 dag reis saam met Litenuf en ek was sommer vinnig verbaas met hoe baie ek al gegroei het vanaf die vorige reis … soos Viv sê, daai 5 grade rigtingverandering maak op die ou einde ‘n groot verskil. Na die 1ste reis het ek geleer dat my liggaam glad nie so gelukkig is met koring en in my 2de reis dat ek ‘n yster tekort het. ‘n Groot geestelike deurbraak was dat ek agtergekom het hoe belangrik die “eie ek” vir my was en hoe ek moes sterf in myself sodat Jesus in my kan leef!  Elmien

Dit was ’n groot voorreg om met Litenuf ’n pad te stap.

‘n Vriendin het my van LITENUF vertel. Sy het julle aanbieding by Doxa Deo bygewoon en het net van die beginsels wat julle daai oggend gedeel het, in haar lewe begin toepas en dit het al vir haar baie gedoen.

Ek het een Woensdag-oggend baie desperaat vir die Here gesê ek kan nie meer so aangaan nie, ek is altyd moeg, my klere pas nie en ek voel glad nie goed oor myself nie.  Ek het al baie dinge probeer om gewig te verloor, maar sonder enige sukses.

Later daardie dag, toe ‘n vriendin vir my vra of ek nie saam met haar die Leef Lig Reis wil doen nie, was dit vir my ‘n antwoord op gebed.

In die begin was dit vir my moeilik, want ek het erge hoofpyne gekry en my bene het so erg gepyn dat ek nie kon slaap nie. Retha het my elke keer  bemoedig en baie moeite gedoen om uit te vind wat ek daaraan kon doen.  Sy het my ook aangemoedig om te volhard.

As ’n “sjokolade verslaafde” was dit aanvanklik ook baie moeilik, maar ek het die reis begin deur die dae totaal aan die Here toe te wy.  Wanneer ek lus geraak het vir sjokolade het ek die Here gevra om my regtig te help om die versoeking te weerstaan.  En ek kon die 40 dae deurgaan sonder enige sjokolade.

Hierdie was nie vir my ’n dieët nie, dit was regtig vir my ’n geestelike reis. Ek het elke dag die tyd saam met die Here spesiaal ervaar. Ek het in hierdie tyd soveel meer geleer.  Wat vir my baie spesiaal was, was dat die dagstukkies wat gereeld gestuur is, so “spot-on” was.

Wat nog ’n groot voordeel was, was dat ek nooit honger gely het en ook nooit nodig gehad het om vir my gesin ander kos te maak nie.

Ek het 10 kilogram in my 40 dae verloor.  Ek slaap baie beter en my vel  is pragtig. My lewe is weer in balans en ek voel nie meer of dit uitmekaar val nie.

Baie dankie vir LITENUF, julle gebede en ondersteuning, want daarsonder sou ek dit nie kon maak nie.

Liefde
René

Ons het hierna weer ‘n e-pos van René ontvang waarin sy vertel het dat sy nog 5 kilogram verloor het.
Haar onlangse boodskap op LITENUFER’S FACEBOOK, lees: “Litenuf het my lewe verander. Baie dankie vir dit wat julle in my lewe beteken het en nogsteeds doen. Mag God julle uit julle sokkies seën.”
Ons sê baie dankie Here! Ons loof U vir elke getuienis van “klein” of “groot” oorwinnings! Mag U Naam verheerlik word!

Elkeen is baie welkom om by ons LITENUF GROEP op FACEBOOK aan te sluit! Sien jou daar!
Litenuf-groete

retha en vivienne

NS. Kyk gerus na ons Litenuf Video deur op hierdie link te kliek: Litenuf Video

When i first began my LITENUF journey i really did not think i would survive more than a week HONESTLY i was so used to my horrible eating habits that life without sugar and wheat almost seemed impossible, that’s how dependent i was on sugar. I could not even began to imagine how life would be like without chocolate and KFC lol.. I did not only decide to join the journey for physical gain but mostly for spiritual guidance, my life was in a bit of a turmoil job-wise and my relationship with God was pretty non-existent and i just felt horrible.

During my journey it felt like the world was moving in slow motion and the Lord was just revealing Himself in my life in ways i had NEVER experienced him, it was amazing to feel emotional, spiritual and physical weight slowly lift of my life. There are no words that can even begin to describe the way i still feel. On this journey i have cried, laughed, sweat, smiled, glowed and feared all in one go in 40 days. It has been a huge stepping stone for my spiritual journey and it makes sense when it comes to my health. Since i began the journey i have not been able to stop and i am not planning on stopping, i feel wonderful. I made a conscious decision from the beginning of the journey not to weigh myself due to my love/hate relationship with the scale. And i have lost weight most of my clothes are loose and alot of people have told me i look like i’ve lost a few kilos. I am beginning to love myself again and it feels amazing! Vivienne and Retha have provided an amazing guideline that has brought me so much joy. Your support, grace, loving and God-fearing nature has made this programme more than just a detox/fast. From the bottom of my heart i thank you.

God bless you!!

Mbali

My first LITENUF journey started not out of a need to lose weight but out of a need to get right with God. Since childhood I have struggled with sexual sin, not realising what I was dealing with back then these issues took root in my life. All along I knew what I was doing was wrong but lust’s thrill has a way of keeping you under its thumb willingly. I nurtured these dark desires in seemingly innocent ways like reading the sex advice in magazines, even playing Barbie’s was not just a game for me. I always kept it secret and in the dark and this was the ideal breeding ground for the devil to work, in the deep dark recesses of our lives where things are often left to fester and consume us from the inside out. He is a pro at what he does. As I grew up my behaviour around guys became more flirtatious and filled with sexual innuendoes but I eased my conscience by convincing myself it was just a joke and all in the name of fun. When this was no longer enough I developed an addiction to pornography and masturbation and afterwards I would be so grossed out by what I had seen and done. I would often think “How can a Christian girl, form a good home, surrounded by strong Christian friends be entangled in something so repulsive and defiling?” but I was. I sought help from various people but it didn’t help because it was always done in my own strength, always my own attempts to ‘cure’ myself and be strong enough to just say ‘No’. Being a perfectionist I became seriously despondent and frustrated with myself and I started to develop feelings of self-loathing that I couldn’t get it right and pull my socks up. This went on for years, feeling victorious when I thought I had kicked the habits and then feeling lower than dirt when I stumbled again. I constantly cried out to God to help me but things would always end up the same. I realise now that all my pleading with God was never for Him to rescue and redeem me but rather that I would have the strength to stop what I was doing, this approach was clearly not working for me.

It became easier to go further and further with guys with each encounter, I would try resist and then give in, feeling temporarily gratified but ultimately defeated. So when I started dating a guy who didn’t believe in God, things just went downhill fast and we were sleeping together in no time. Lust is like an unquenchable thirst and I was trying to satisfy it with salt water. Throughout our relationship I felt immense guilt in my spirit but my physical self was quite content. This conflict raged like a war inside of me and in my lows I even wished I had never known God because it would just be easier to plod on in blissful ignorance and feel no guilt. Scary thinking, I know. I am so grateful however that He never gave up on me and sought my heart relentlessly no matter what I wished. We broke up and I confessed my sins to someone I trusted and my parents. I started to seek God again but unfortunately my unappeased sexual appetite just lay dormant for a while. The void that had been created by the break up just got filled with old habits and I was back to square one. I was mortified that I could slip so easily back into these revolting behaviours. I didn’t tell anyone for a long time because it would just be another disappointment but I started to become way too comfortable with it and it was becoming more and more frequent and I was slipping deeper into the filth. I couldn’t stand myself anymore and knew I needed a serious Godly intervention because I clearly wasn’t getting it right.

I started the journey; honestly it was really hard at first from an eating point of view because I had never denied myself anything so radically before and from a spiritual point of view because I had ignored God for so long that I wasn’t even sure I could hear Him anymore. A couple of days in though I started to hear Him and for the first time in my life I felt truly connected. I had grown up Christian, yes, but now it was like my spirit was awake. My relationship with my saviour had seriously upgraded! I felt that in the last week I should ‘march around my Jericho’, which represented the strongholds in my life, and I would have victory. I did that and by the last day I felt a great freedom, like things were going to be just fine. I felt about 2 weeks later to continue fasting and to do the journey again but more to deepen my relationship and to praise God for the rescue mission He had done and the new chapter He started in my life. Trust was something He really pin-pointed during this time, it came as quite a shock to realise how little I really trusted Him and how much I was relying on myself. Sadly my failure to grasp this with both hands really was setting me up for disaster as a couple months later I stepped into a poorly disguised pool of sinking sand called pride and self reliance. The result was me sleeping with a guy with no regard for the consequences and after ignoring many warnings from the Holy Spirit along the way too; I thought I would be able to say no and resist temptation on my own, clearly this was naive thinking. Afterward I felt so worthless and I was so ashamed about this disastrous blunder that I considered telling no-one but this time I swallowed my pride and spilled the beans. It was the first time I felt I had truly disappointed and hurt my family. I was sent to get an AIDS test which was the loneliest and scariest thing I have ever had to do. This rude awakening made me realise a couple of hard truths about my pride, my frailties as a human and things that affect me. I felt that there were things that I had ‘kept from Jericho’ like some of the Israelites had and so I did a serious clean out in my life. I went for counselling and deliverance to ensure that there were no left over critters lurking around. I’ve decided that I can’t watch anything with sexual content; I’ve removed myself from social networks and try to leave no room for misunderstandings with guys.  I can’t allow myself any slack without God’s nod. This is not to say I’m not still tempted all the time but I know now where my short comings are and can run to God when I see them coming. God has been faithful in cleaning me up and purifying me and I’m so grateful for His infinite grace with me.

This has been my third journey and I will always be a work in progress. Learning to forgive myself and to stop striving to gain God’s acceptance when He has given it to me freely are two of the hardest things for me to wrap my head around, but I know God will show me how. He is, after all, at the top of His game in the rescuing, loving, fixing and growing business.

On the ‘lighter’ side of life I’ve lost 6kg in total from the first time until now and never picked any of it up again. Though this wasn’t my focus I do feel more confident in myself and I’m now at my goal weight. Any girl is happy about that. LITENUF has been a platform for me to connect with God on a much deeper level and get to know Him more intimately but most importantly it’s been a platform for Him to work in me and change me from the inside out.

 Toevallig? Of toe-val-die-lig!  Op hierdie dag verander my lewe radikaal en sal NOOIT weer dieselfde wees nie.

Eindeksamen – ons skryf Biologie, my favourite vak.  Ek sit kruisbeen op my ouers se bed met al my boeke lekker lewendig en interessant uitgesprei.  Dit is so omtrent 19h00 en ek eet ‘n strawberry yoghurt met ‘n Fizz Pop lolly.

Ek kyk gewoonlik net vir interessantheid…uhm – not!…ek kyk ALTYD op die etiket wát ek geëet het en hoeveel kilojoules dit bevat.  Tot my skok besef ek dit was nie Fat Free nie, maar Double Delight.  My keel trek toe want ek besef ek sal nie nou tyd hê om hierdie duisende kilojoules te gaan uitoefen nie.  Net die gedagte daaraan dat ek met al duisend moet gaan slaap, het my naar gemaak…fisies.

En hierdie bakkie Double Delight, was die begin van my 20 jaar stryd met die-eet-steurnis…anorexia en bulimia.

Ek het op ‘n stadium 37kg geweeg en nogsteeds gedink ek is dik.  Ek het my kind se lewe in gevaar gestel tydens my swangerskap deur teveel te oefen en te min te eet.  Dank God my kind het geen skade gely nie.

‘n Verslawing aan byvoorbeeld alkohol, sigarette of dwelms is ‘n uitdaging, maar kan redelik maklik oorwin word deur dood eenvoudig hierdie middels uit jou leefstyl te sny.

Maar wat as jou verslawing iets is wat vir jou lewensnoodsaaklik is…soos kos?

As ek klere gaan koop het, het ek gewoonlik ‘n size 10 en ‘n size 8 gegryp.  Altyd die 10 eerste aangepas, myself bekyk en gesmile van lekkerkry as die broek los gesit het. As die 8 te styf gesit het, was dit ‘n crap dag en het ek sommer ekstra hard geoefen en ekstra hard somme gedoen met my etikette!

As ek komplimente gekry het by mense, kon ek dit gewoonlik nie hanteer nie en was dit moeilik gewees om oogkontak te hou.  Diep binne my was ek só skaam.  Die skuldgevoel wat oor my siel en gees gehang het, het my laat ‘cringe’.  My liggaam het nooit regtig gely nie, want ek het seker gemaak ek eet nét genoeg en nét reg en rond dit af met nét genoeg oefening.  Sodoende het geen mens enigiets agtergekom nie.

Geen mens…maar daar was wel Iemand wat dit vir 20 jaar gesien het. 

Is dit nie funny dat mens met ‘n sonde of iets wat jy bewustelik verkeerd doen, soos pornografie of diefstal of egbreuk, vir die oomblik of tydperk terwyl jy dit doen, die gewoonte het om muur toe te stap…die knoppie af te sit en heeltemal vergeet van God, Jesus en die Heilige Gees.  Dis asof Hulle nie bestaan nie.  Ek dink dit is seker die eensaamste tyd…want jy doen dit actually alleen, alhoewel Hulle al drie en al die miljoene engele vir jou staan en kyk (EN JOU HEELTYD WIL HELP!). 

Ek was die skaamste dáároor…hoe kan jy so versigtig wees om iets voor mense te doen, maar glad nie omgee in daardie oomblik dat jou Skepper en Verlosser…die belangrikste Being in die heelal alles sien wat jy doen nie!? 

Die skuldgevoel…die knoppie afsit…die rookskerm wat jou verblind, is wat jou weerhou van ‘n vry en opregte verhouding met God. 

Oorwinning

Die oomblik wat jy teenoor ‘n mens getuig dat jy ‘n probleem het, is die outomatiese reaksie:  ‘Jy het die stryd nou al 95% gewen!’ 

Sodra jy in ‘n area in jou lewe iets oorwin het, kry jy outoriteit op daardie gebied en is jou waagmoed en sukses om die volgende probleemareas in jou lewe skoon te maak, soveel groter.  Prys ons Skepper daarvoor! 

Op 12-11-2010, 20 jaar ná my stryd, het ek dit vir die eerste keer erken aan ‘n mens…want ek het dit finaal oorwin.  Glo vir my…dit was moeilik, maar ek kan nie die verligting en verlossing beskryf wat in elke minuut daarna gevolg het nie!  Retha, dankie vir jou gehoorsaamheid om hierdie afspraak by te woon. 

Ek wou so baie maal breek met hierdie siektes/sondes, maar ek het toegelaat dat die vyand my laat glo het dat ek dit nie kan regkry nie. Dit is egter onmoontlik om dit self reg te kry.  Jy het die krag van God nodig.  Jy het die geloof nodig dat Jesus jou verlos het.  Sonder hierdie ‘Hulp’, sal jy NOOIT genees nie.  Nie uit eie krag nie. 

Dit het nog altyd vir my gevoel asof ek nou reg is om te breek, maar net voor ek spring, was die bungi-toue nie om my voete nie, maar om my nek.  Dit het my dan net keer op keer verhoed. 

Sonder dat ek geweet het, het soveel mense in gebed en geloof vir my ingetree in hierdie tyd.  Vivienne en Retha van Litenuf het soos hulle belowe het, vir my gebid en onder andere Col 1:9-12:

‘….we have not ceased to pray for you and to ask that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding so that you may walk in a manner that is worthy of the Lord, to please Him in every respect, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in knowledge of God, strengthened in all power according to His might, for steadfastness and patience and joyously giving thanks to the Father…’ 

My identiteit

Ek het baie betrokke geraak met die dinge van die Here – altyd so besig met die dinge by die kerk, maar nie regtig betrokke met die Here nie.  Nou dat ek my ware identiteit besef en daarin glo, is ek besig met die Here en Sy opdragte deur die Heilige Gees.

Die stap of die sprong wat ek geneem het, het vir die eerste keer in 20 jaar verander van ‘n bungi-jump met ‘n tou om die nek, na ‘n sprong saam met my liewe God op Sy vlerke, totaal in vryheid, alleenlik afhanklik van Sy genade en liefde in oorwinning. 

Openbaring 12:11  ‘Hulle het self die oorwinning oor hom behaal danksy die bloed van die Lam en die boodskap waaraan hulle getuig het; en hulle het nie hulle lewens so lief gehad dat hulle onwillig was om vir Hom te sterwe nie.’ 

Lewe in die lig

Die knoppie word NOOIT afgesit nie.  Die Heilige Gees is 24/7 by jou, oor jou en in jou en jy doen alles in die waarheid.  Dan het jy die gesag om die viand te weerstaan en hy moet vlug. (Submit to God and resist the devil and he will flee – James 4:7) 

Nou glo ek nie meer net in God nie, ek glo God.

Hi Vivienne and Retha    

Thank you so much for your obedience in ministering to people in such a special way, in a field that is so important for us to gain victory in our day-to-day life, as well as in our deep, spiritual relationship with God. You have shown me how profound the simple ritual of eating can be as we uncover layer upon layer of consecration to Him.

This is not only the best, but the only lifestyle plan I will follow for the rest of my life! It is just wonderful. I’m much more energetic, enterprising, creative and inspired! It’s as if I’ve found a spiritual key that was lost before!

Thank you so much. May God bless you and bring much fruit on your work as you serve Him.

Love   Hadassah 

Hi julle twee 

Baie, baie dankie vir alles wat julle die afgelope tyd vir my beteken het en vir al julle ondersteuning. Ook dat ek my hartsgeheime met julle kon deel.

• Ek het in hierdie 40 dae ongelooflik baie gegroei in my geloof en my verhouding met God, en geestelik oneindig BAIE sterk geword.
• Skielik laat ek my nie meer ontstel oor wat mense dink of doen nie, omdat ek ‘n verhouding het met die mees “awesome-ste” God. 
• In my reis van 40 dae het ek geleer dat ek niemand kan dwing om te glo soos ek glo nie, maar dat ek met my leefwyse ander kan aanspoor en inspireer en jaloers maak om graag soos ek te wil lewe en daardeur kan ek nog baie mense na Jesus lei.
• Ek het geleer dat niks wat ‘n mens doen sonder God gedoen kan word nie, en dat ek tot alles in staat is deur Hom wat my krag gee.
• Ek het ook geleer dat ek maar met Hom kan gesels, wanneer ek wil en soveel kere per dag as wat ek wil.
• Dat ek ook my beloftes aan Hom kan nakom (soos die “vas”) soos Hy elke belofte wat Hy maak, nakom.
• Die lys is oneindig lank, maar ek is so dankbaar vir alles wat met my gebeur het.

Ek het nog baie om te ontdek en te beleef, maar ek glo God het ‘n wonderlike plan vir my in gedagte en dat die paaie wat ek van nou-af gaan loop, minder klipperig gaan wees as die voriges. Ek is ook baie positief dat ek totaal genees is van kanker want my God is groot en by Hom is alles moontlik.

Dankie julle twee, julle is die beste.
Ek gaan wag vir my nuwe boekie en nog ‘n reis onderneem.
Hierdie een was so GREAT dat ek my net kan indink wat die volgende een alles kan inhou.                   

Baie dankie vir hierdie diens wat julle aan ons almal lewer. Dit beteken die wêreld vir my en ek kan definitief ‘n verandering in my lewenswyse agterkom. Ek het ook  geen “cravings” meer nie en ek kan makliker “vas” as voorheen.

Baie liefde

Rina Malan

(Liewe Rina,…”Jy weerspieel die heerlikheid van die Here, want die sluier is van jou gesig af weggeneem. Jy word al hoe meer verander om aan die beeld van Christus gelyk te word. Die heerlikheid wat van jou uitstraal, neem steeds toe. Dit doen die Here.” 2 Kor. 3:18)

Dear Vivienne,   (20.09.10)

Firstly I would like to apologize for only replying to your mail now.  I did it on purpose as the feedback I would have given after the 40 days would not have been 10% of my testimony.  Not that I have reached 100% at this stage.  I can see the Lord doing major things in my/our lives and this is only the beginning.  For that matter our whole family.

During the 40 days I’ve lost 8 kg’s.  Thereafter I’ve started with a series fast (1 day fast, 1 day eat) and plan to continue up to end October.  During the eat days I still stick to the Litenuf formula (no sugar, no wheat, lots of fruit, lots of water etc) and the fast days I only drink water. To date I’ve lost 13 kg. 

During this time I continue to draw closer and closer to the Lord and stand amazed at the amount of strongholds He reveals to me.  As I indicated on my first mail to you, your visit to the Danie Botha’s camp was just for me, and this has proven to be SO TRUE.  The 40 days has changed my/our lives forever.  We do not buy any sugar or wheat any more only a 500g raw sugar for the kids. Sweat for the kids is only for high days and holidays  My wife looks great, she lost about 3 kg (BMI now about 21), my son (11 years) also lost 10% and he looks better than ever.

So thank you from the bottom of my heart for your obedience to do this presentation to such a big group (as you said in July.)  It has changed our lives. All the praise to my Abba Father, my Lord and Master Jesus and Holy Spirit (my best friend).   We will never be the same again (Jesus said mos “I’ve come to… proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord….to set the captives free etc”) 

I will continue to keep you updated until I’ve reached my goal.

God bless

Deon and family

Hierdie epos het my en Vivienne so geseën dat ons vir hom die volgende teruggeskryf het (25.09.10):

Hallo Deon
Dit is Retha hier. Ek het jou mail ‘n rukkie gelede gelees maar weer vandag. Ek gaan so deur al die mooi getuienisse van die afgelope tyd en prys die Here vir Sy Grootheid en die werk in mensekinders se lewens.Ek wil van my kant af ook vir jou sê ek staan “amazed” en sal verder met Vivienne vir jou en jou familie in julle beloofde land in bid, (nie vir 40 jaar nie), omdat jy gehoorsaam is … en nie soos die Israeliete murmureer nie.
(Ek verwys na die opdrag wat die Here vir my en Viv gegee het uit Joshua 1:15 “You are to help your brothers until the Lord gives them rest, as He has done for you, and until they too have taken possession of the land that the Lord your God is giving them. After that, you may go back …”) (Net vir interessantheid, Viv het eers later ontdek dat die 3 voorbereidingsdae wat sy geskryf het, vergelyk kan word met Jos. 1:11) moeite werd gewees het om die aanbieding daar te gee. Want Hy is die Herder wat al die ander skapies sal los en die een gaan soek wat verdwaal geraak het.Daar is ook ander wat die kamp bygewoon het, wat met goeie resultate die 40 dae deurloop het, maar al sou jy die enigste gewees het wie se lewe die Here hierdeur verander het, sou dit nogsteeds vir ons die

Ons kry deur middel van Fit for Praise elke week met Daleen Botha te doen. Kan ons hierdie epos van jou vir haar en Danie gee om te lees? Ons kan jou naam uithaal as jy dit verkies. Ek dink net dit kan vir hulle ook ‘n inspirasie wees, ‘n bevestiging dat hulle reg gehoor het toe hulle ons na die kamp genooi het. Kan ek dit ook aan die paar stuur wat gereeld vir Litenuf CC bid en saam met ons vertrou dat die Here ook vorentoe vir ons finansieel sal bly in staat stel om hiermee voort te gaan. Ek verstaan hierdie gaan nie jou volledige getuienis wees nie want die Here werk nog, maar ons kan later die vervolg ook aangee.

Die Here seën jou Deon so op jou oorwinningspad. En ons onderneem om steeds vir jou te bid.

Groete aan jou familie.
Ons salueer julle.
Reet en Viv

Deon se antwoord (26.09.10):

Hi Retha,

You are most welcome and please do not remove my name.  I will communicate with anyone who need support or inspiration.  Time is too little to be anonymous, remember Rev 12:11  You are so right that this is the beginning and not the end of our testimony, but your contribution will always be remembered.   The Lord will take us as deep as we are willing to go (and I intend to stop on the other side “of the world”  if possible) .

Thanks for all your prayers and obedience.

Shalom Shalom

Deon Beukes

 Email: deon.beukes@eskom.co.za

 Aangesien Deon gewillig is om met enigiemand te kommunikeer om te inspireer, het ek nie sy eposadres weggelaat nie.

NS. Hy is Afrikaanssprekend vir diegene wat graag met hom in Afrikaans wil kommunikeer.